Op-ed submissions wanted (child welfare, homelessness, justice) | $250 per piece
Added 2024-10-24 15:45:55 +0000 UTCCOMPANY/PUBLICATION: FOSTERING MEDIA CONNECTIONS
This writing opportunity is open to youth 18+ with current or former experience with foster care, the child welfare system, with experience with the juvenile justice system or homelessness. Submissions that are accepted to be published, will earn $250.
MUST live in California, New York, Minnesota, Washington and/or identify as Indigenous.
PROMPTS:
Write a nonfiction opinion piece (op-ed), non-fiction short stories, essay about your experience(s) with the child welfare system, homelessness and/or juvenile justice. This is an opportunity for you to tell your story in a variety of creative ways! Use the topics below as a guiding tool, you may use multiple topics to form your opinion piece. If you are in a specific area, please use the topics below or choose any topic that relates to foster care. If you are not in these specific area below, choose any topic that relates to foster care.
NEW YORK Writers:
How New York will – or won’t – follow in the footsteps of other states in providing additional support to older foster youth due to the pandemic
How reunification, other court processes, schools and in-person services resume as the city and state have reopened; Parent advocates’ push to address systemic and racial issues
Early intervention and prevention programs for children and families
Child wellbeing and mental health
Youth homelessness & prevention
Parent advocates
Transition age youth
Policy-related commentary
Youth opinions on research/data
LA AREA Writers:
Transition age youth
Child maltreatment prevention
Foster youth and employment
Higher education particularly vocational
Youth homelessness
Policies that impact foster youth in LA County
Mental Health
Racism
Covid-19
Incarcerated foster youth
MINNESOTA Writers:
Racial (In)Justice
Prevention efforts to keep families together
Racial disproportionality in foster care removals
Kinship support
Minnesota's safety net for older foster youth
Policies that impact foster youth in Minnesota.
WASHINGTON Writers:
Youth homelessness
Policies that impact foster youth
Immigration issues that affect foster youth
Fostered because their parents were incarcerated or deported
INDIGENOUS Writers:
What is your lived experience?
What do you want people to know about being an indigenous youth with lived child welfare experience?
Did you receive and / or experience culturally-competent care and services?
What other identities intersect with your indigenous ancestry and how has that impacted your lived experiences?
STUDENT Writers:
Challenges that interfere with education -- housing, mental health, employment.
After receiving your draft, we will contact you via email with additional information regarding the editing process.
If you wish to remain ANONYMOUS - fill out this form completely and then send me an email at Ivory@fosteringmediaconnections.org or Tracey@fosteringmediaconnections.org
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CONTACT INFORMATION:
Submissions: Via the webform
Website: https://www.fosteringmediaconnections.org/
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